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Chasing Ghosts: Beyond the Arcade or Why We Have a Fascination with...
By Jason McClain (@JTorreyMcClain) Both Chasing Ghosts: Beyond the Arcade and The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters premiered the same day. Chasing Ghosts premiered at the 2007 Sundance Film...
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Podcasts, Characters and “Community” at WonderCon
By Jason McClain (@JTorreyMcClain) As I drive back and forth to visit my parents in Arizona, I use those long solitary times in the car to listen to podcasts. “WNYC’s Radiolab,” “the memory palace,”...
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Spring TV season wrap-up–What we are (and aren’t) watching
By the borg.com Writing Staff As the spring TV season winds down, we thought we’d take a moment to reflect back on this season’s viewing, looking at what ultimately made our “must watch” list, and...
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Several genre creators and celebrities attend Comic-Con 2012
By C.J. Bunce You can spend your weekend at Comic-Con wandering the exhibit floor looking for mass market collectibles, talking with dealers of original art, talking with writers and artists of...
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NBC lends assist with “six seasons and a movie” signing Community to fifth...
It may be a sign that fans of much-loved TV series are finally having a say in determining what stays on TV. With fans voting with their wallets last month to bring Veronica Mars to the silver screen...
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On Wall Decorations —“A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night”
WELCOME TO EARTH-4 A Column by J. Torrey McClain Around this time last year, my good friend Steve suggested that we check out A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night (2014) at the Silent Movie Theater here...
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Review–Find a treasure trove of Dungeons and Dragons’ past in new Art and...
Review by C.J. Bunce If you’re not a player of Dungeons & Dragons, a new journey through the hills and valleys of the roleplay game that started it all will get you up to speed quickly. Dungeons...
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Now streaming–Twelve Genre Episodes of Christmas Past
Still aren’t in the Christmas spirit yet? With no Christmas day episode of Doctor Who this year, Netflix is filling in the gap with an episode of Chilling Adventures of Sabrina called “A Midwinter’s...
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Six seasons and (almost) a movie–Community cast reunites with surprise...
When my wife bought me the six seasons of Community I secretly wondered if she was trying to kill me–because I’d laughed so hard watching episodes of the show before I frequently thought I was going...
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One day build–Make a UGEARS Random Generator STEM Lab kit
Random chance can set all kinds of activities into motion. Remember Abed’s discussion of the dice role and its impact in Community? Do you recall the potential impending doom as a kid shaking the...
View ArticleAt the theater: Displacement – Midnight in Paris
By Jason McClain (@jtorreyMcClain) The movie starts out with images. The Eiffel Tower. The Arc De Triomphe. The Louvre. Le Sacre Coeur. The Seine. Familiar looking streets to your eye if you’ve...
View ArticleReview–Neil Gaiman’s “American Gods”
By Jason McClain (@JTorreyMcClain) American Gods is a pretty wonderful book and I can’t help but think about what a friend said after her husband read it. He said, “I think this book would have blown...
View Article“Community,” Steve Jobs, and Us
By Jason McClain (@JTorreyMcClain) On Wednesday, October 6th, Steve Jobs died of pancreatic cancer at the age of 56. I found out when I looked at my Twitter feed for talk from Cardinals and Phillies...
View ArticlePop Culture Ownership – “A Feast for Crows” and Albert Pujols
By Jason McClain (@JTorreyMcClain) Hi! It’s been a while. How are you? I’m fine. Now. After a month long mourning period that we now have to address even though it borders on the very edges of...
View ArticleWonderCon!
By Jason McClain (@JTorreyMcClain) Since the wonderful CJ Bunce mentioned Comic-Con last week, I figured I would work in a mention of its “wonder”ful cousin. Next weekend marks my first time attending...
View ArticleNow streaming–It’s a great time to revisit Netflix’s The Order
Review by C.J. Bunce Count yourself lucky if you missed the 2019 supernatural series The Order on Netflix. Why? Because you can look forward to the best five-season supernatural series in years....
View ArticleTransatlantic–Art history meets war romance drama in new Netflix series
Review by C.J. Bunce Where the other members of the cast of Community have pretty much continued to make their marks since the series ended, series co-lead Gillian Jacobs finally has seized a serious...
View ArticleLore & Legends–Reflect on Dungeons & Dragons’ 5th Edition in new chronicle
Review by C.J. Bunce Sometimes you need to stop, recognize, and reflect on your successes. Dungeons & Dragons is doing just that in the new mega-sized hardcover book Lore & Legends: A Visual...
View ArticleNow streaming–Brats, or Who was in the Brat Pack anyway?
Review by C.J. Bunce The new documentary Brats is one man’s look at a reference in New York Magazine that changed his life. Remember the Brat Pack? You hadn’t heard that term prior to 1985, because...
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